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1850 PU
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
V w n.l . . . -
The eyes of Argus
are upon me, and no
slip will pass unnoticed.
-George Washington
Bloomington, Illinois 61701, Fridayv. October 13 1079
Alleged discrimination mars
fall cheerleading tryouts
by JIM ROBINSON
Asst. Managing Editor
On Wednesday Sept. 20, Cheryl Port-wood
presented an appeal petition to
Public Relations and Development Com-mission
(PRDC) in protest of the cheer-leader
selection process for the 1972-73
year.
Ms. Portwood's petition protested that
there were only five out of a required
seven judges, only one black judge, only
one person selecting judges, internal con-flict
from within the squad, and a gener-al
lack of notification from PRDC on
the new selection process. Ms. Portwood
also mentioned her three years of experi-ence
in high school and two years experi-ence
at IWU.
PRDC indicated that the rules of the
selection process had been carried out
fairly and said that it could not handle
the complaint. Janice Breitman, Com-mission
head of PRDC explained that
"only five judges were available at the
time of the judging, and only one black
judge could be obtained although more
were invited." PRDC then suggested
that Ms. Portwood continue her appeal
to either Student Senate or the Dean
of Students office.
Darryl Deets, Student Senate President
was informed of the situation Wednes-day
night. On Thursday Sept. 21, Deets
met with Ms. Portwood, Annie Guyton,
member of the cheerleader selection
committee, and Steve Pittman, Student
Senate Vic President and discussed the
problem but no decision was reached.
Another meeting was scheduled for
Friday night Sept. 22, with Jerry Jensen,
Dean of Students and Dave Wilkins of
the Black Student Union attending. It
was decided that some sort of compro-mise
should be decided upon over the
weekend. Also a decision was made to
allow the squad to cheer at the game on
Saturday.
Over the weekend Deets worked with
both parties in order to work at a com-promise.
On Sunday Sept. 24 a special
PRDC meeting was called inorder to ef-fect
that compromise, but PRDC main-tained
their earlier position and no de-cision
was reached.
Deets then informed the administra-tion
that the problem could not be work-ed
out at the student level and requested
the Dean of Students to deal with the
problem. At this point the question be-came
one of greater importance than
just an appeal petition, it became larger
and more involved dealing with ques-tions
of the selection process policy and
campus policy as a whole coming into
consideration.
Dean Jensen, then consulted the new-ly
formed Campus Life committee they
supported his decision to resolve the
"two diametrically opposed student
points of view."
"Because of the current feelings on
the campus it seems to us (Campus Life)
advisable that the cheerleading squad be
expanded from eight to eleven members
with additional membership being made
up of the three women who served as
either varsity or freshman cheerleaders
during the 1971-72 season," reported
Jensen.
"It is obvious to me that there are
other problems surrounding the whole
matter of cheerleading selection and the
total operation of the cheerleading pro-gram
and I will continue to work with
those groups who currently have the
responsibility for the cheerleading pro-gram
in an attempt to resolve the cur-rent
issues and avoid future problems.
All future procedures for selection and
governing of cheerleaders will need to
be made in consultation with the Dean
of Students."
University re-instates TKE house
After one year the Tau Kappa Epsilon
Fraternity has been taken off probation
and reevaluated.
During the 1971-72 year TKE members
were involved in three major distur-bances:
the illegal use of a fire extin-guisher
during a "serenade" at a local
sorority, trying to enter a women's resi-dence
hall after closing hours, and com-plaints
from neighbors about fireworks
at the house.
In order to meet university standards
the house had to improve the grade
IWU Players set tryouts
Tryouts for the Wesleyan Players will
be held Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct.
17 at 6:30 and Oct. 18 at 7:00 in the
President's Room East. All students have
been encouraged to try out by Jan Pols-grove,
this year's director.
The Wesleyan Players is a drama
group sponsored by the Religious Activit-ies
Commission and performing through-out
the state.
Anyone wishing to try out but unable
to make it should contact Ms. Polsgrove
at 556-2129,.
point average of their pledge class, lo-cate
a chapter advisor, organize a liv-ing
unity judiciary council, improve com-munication
between the house and the
Dean of Students office, and provide a
positive attitude within the house, said
Associate Dean of Students Hal Was-sink.
Within one year all of the criterion
has been reached and the TKE frater-nity
has started taking seriously their
position within the university, according
to Wassink. The house has rejoined
Inter-Fraternity council and working to
forward the Greek system at IWU.
With the help of the alumni chapter,
the TKE house is now working toward
a solution to the financial problem be-tween
the TKE's and the University.
Membership is now increasing and
with it the pledge class grade point,
putting an end to the financial crisis.
Wassink said the new changes in the
TKE house can only be credited to the
new leadership that developed near the
time of the probation. Roger Pettington,
current, and Neal Nickolson, past presi-dent
have started the improvements and
deserve credit for their work.
"Divine decadence" just oozes from this bunch-and there's more where they came
from in "Cabaret," now running thru Oct. 22 at McPherson. Call the boxoffice at
556-3011 for ticket information.
Candidates woo prairie state voters
As the November elections draw near,
the central Illinois area is drawing sev-eral
Republican and Democratic candi-dates
for high office this week.
U.S. Sen. Charles Percy, Republican
candidate for reelection, will speak at
8 p.m. Tuesday in the ballroom of the
Illinois State University Union.
Percy's opponent, U.S. Rep. Roman
Pucinski, will come to ISU the follow-ing
day. Pucinski will speak Wednesday
at noon at Capen Auditorium.
ON THURSDAY the Illinois League of
Women Voters will sponsor a Down-state
Candidates Day at the Holiday Inn
East in Springfield.
The morning session, beginning at
10 a.m., will feature a discussion and
question-and-answer session by Republi-can
Gov. Richard Ogilvie (up for reelec-tion),
Percy, and a representative of
President Richard Nixon.
Democratic opponents Dan Walker
(running for governor), and Pucinski,
and a spokesman for Democratic presi-dential
candidate Sen. George McGovern
will take the stage for the afternoon ses-sion.
Walter Jacobson, Chicago TV news
commentator, will deliver a keynote ad-dress
at noon.
Poor turnouts and invalid votes mark-ed
Tuesday's primary election.
From the four classes, and off-campus,
there was a total of 71 invalid votes.
The freshman class alone had a turnout
of over 50% (58.9%) with the seniors
following at 33.05%.
Candidates making it into the final
elections were Dave Clemens and Janet
Thomas for freshman president, with
Sue Dobslaf and Mary Jo Newberg for
freshman secretary.
LARRY EKIN and Dave Krause will
be final candidates for sophomore presi-dent
with Rhonda Pomeroy and Greg
Zavitz surviving in the race for sopho-more
secretary.
Remaining junior candidates are Tom
Christensen, Steve Bennett, and Marji
Sieveking for president, Pat Brown and
Diane Sturdy for secretary. Senior candi-dates
for president will be "Roomer"
Wiedrich and John Pepmeyer with Randy
"R.B." Beneze and Mary Hancock run-ning
for secretary. Bruce McClaren, Paul
Misch, and Gene Travis were the finalists
for off-campus representatives in senate.
The final election will take place Tues-day,
Oct. 17.
The school of drama requests that any-body
who possesses tickets to "Cabaret"
and does not intend to use them should
return the tickets to the McPherson box
office before curtain time of the date on
the ticket.
Anyone whose name is on one of the
waiting lists for "Cabaret" should stop
in at the box office and inform the office
whether or not he is still interested in
remaining on that list.
volume /y
Number 6
Poor turnouts, invalid votes mark primaries;
candidates to battle in final Tuesday ballot

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1850 PU
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
V w n.l . . . -
The eyes of Argus
are upon me, and no
slip will pass unnoticed.
-George Washington
Bloomington, Illinois 61701, Fridayv. October 13 1079
Alleged discrimination mars
fall cheerleading tryouts
by JIM ROBINSON
Asst. Managing Editor
On Wednesday Sept. 20, Cheryl Port-wood
presented an appeal petition to
Public Relations and Development Com-mission
(PRDC) in protest of the cheer-leader
selection process for the 1972-73
year.
Ms. Portwood's petition protested that
there were only five out of a required
seven judges, only one black judge, only
one person selecting judges, internal con-flict
from within the squad, and a gener-al
lack of notification from PRDC on
the new selection process. Ms. Portwood
also mentioned her three years of experi-ence
in high school and two years experi-ence
at IWU.
PRDC indicated that the rules of the
selection process had been carried out
fairly and said that it could not handle
the complaint. Janice Breitman, Com-mission
head of PRDC explained that
"only five judges were available at the
time of the judging, and only one black
judge could be obtained although more
were invited." PRDC then suggested
that Ms. Portwood continue her appeal
to either Student Senate or the Dean
of Students office.
Darryl Deets, Student Senate President
was informed of the situation Wednes-day
night. On Thursday Sept. 21, Deets
met with Ms. Portwood, Annie Guyton,
member of the cheerleader selection
committee, and Steve Pittman, Student
Senate Vic President and discussed the
problem but no decision was reached.
Another meeting was scheduled for
Friday night Sept. 22, with Jerry Jensen,
Dean of Students and Dave Wilkins of
the Black Student Union attending. It
was decided that some sort of compro-mise
should be decided upon over the
weekend. Also a decision was made to
allow the squad to cheer at the game on
Saturday.
Over the weekend Deets worked with
both parties in order to work at a com-promise.
On Sunday Sept. 24 a special
PRDC meeting was called inorder to ef-fect
that compromise, but PRDC main-tained
their earlier position and no de-cision
was reached.
Deets then informed the administra-tion
that the problem could not be work-ed
out at the student level and requested
the Dean of Students to deal with the
problem. At this point the question be-came
one of greater importance than
just an appeal petition, it became larger
and more involved dealing with ques-tions
of the selection process policy and
campus policy as a whole coming into
consideration.
Dean Jensen, then consulted the new-ly
formed Campus Life committee they
supported his decision to resolve the
"two diametrically opposed student
points of view."
"Because of the current feelings on
the campus it seems to us (Campus Life)
advisable that the cheerleading squad be
expanded from eight to eleven members
with additional membership being made
up of the three women who served as
either varsity or freshman cheerleaders
during the 1971-72 season," reported
Jensen.
"It is obvious to me that there are
other problems surrounding the whole
matter of cheerleading selection and the
total operation of the cheerleading pro-gram
and I will continue to work with
those groups who currently have the
responsibility for the cheerleading pro-gram
in an attempt to resolve the cur-rent
issues and avoid future problems.
All future procedures for selection and
governing of cheerleaders will need to
be made in consultation with the Dean
of Students."
University re-instates TKE house
After one year the Tau Kappa Epsilon
Fraternity has been taken off probation
and reevaluated.
During the 1971-72 year TKE members
were involved in three major distur-bances:
the illegal use of a fire extin-guisher
during a "serenade" at a local
sorority, trying to enter a women's resi-dence
hall after closing hours, and com-plaints
from neighbors about fireworks
at the house.
In order to meet university standards
the house had to improve the grade
IWU Players set tryouts
Tryouts for the Wesleyan Players will
be held Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct.
17 at 6:30 and Oct. 18 at 7:00 in the
President's Room East. All students have
been encouraged to try out by Jan Pols-grove,
this year's director.
The Wesleyan Players is a drama
group sponsored by the Religious Activit-ies
Commission and performing through-out
the state.
Anyone wishing to try out but unable
to make it should contact Ms. Polsgrove
at 556-2129,.
point average of their pledge class, lo-cate
a chapter advisor, organize a liv-ing
unity judiciary council, improve com-munication
between the house and the
Dean of Students office, and provide a
positive attitude within the house, said
Associate Dean of Students Hal Was-sink.
Within one year all of the criterion
has been reached and the TKE frater-nity
has started taking seriously their
position within the university, according
to Wassink. The house has rejoined
Inter-Fraternity council and working to
forward the Greek system at IWU.
With the help of the alumni chapter,
the TKE house is now working toward
a solution to the financial problem be-tween
the TKE's and the University.
Membership is now increasing and
with it the pledge class grade point,
putting an end to the financial crisis.
Wassink said the new changes in the
TKE house can only be credited to the
new leadership that developed near the
time of the probation. Roger Pettington,
current, and Neal Nickolson, past presi-dent
have started the improvements and
deserve credit for their work.
"Divine decadence" just oozes from this bunch-and there's more where they came
from in "Cabaret," now running thru Oct. 22 at McPherson. Call the boxoffice at
556-3011 for ticket information.
Candidates woo prairie state voters
As the November elections draw near,
the central Illinois area is drawing sev-eral
Republican and Democratic candi-dates
for high office this week.
U.S. Sen. Charles Percy, Republican
candidate for reelection, will speak at
8 p.m. Tuesday in the ballroom of the
Illinois State University Union.
Percy's opponent, U.S. Rep. Roman
Pucinski, will come to ISU the follow-ing
day. Pucinski will speak Wednesday
at noon at Capen Auditorium.
ON THURSDAY the Illinois League of
Women Voters will sponsor a Down-state
Candidates Day at the Holiday Inn
East in Springfield.
The morning session, beginning at
10 a.m., will feature a discussion and
question-and-answer session by Republi-can
Gov. Richard Ogilvie (up for reelec-tion),
Percy, and a representative of
President Richard Nixon.
Democratic opponents Dan Walker
(running for governor), and Pucinski,
and a spokesman for Democratic presi-dential
candidate Sen. George McGovern
will take the stage for the afternoon ses-sion.
Walter Jacobson, Chicago TV news
commentator, will deliver a keynote ad-dress
at noon.
Poor turnouts and invalid votes mark-ed
Tuesday's primary election.
From the four classes, and off-campus,
there was a total of 71 invalid votes.
The freshman class alone had a turnout
of over 50% (58.9%) with the seniors
following at 33.05%.
Candidates making it into the final
elections were Dave Clemens and Janet
Thomas for freshman president, with
Sue Dobslaf and Mary Jo Newberg for
freshman secretary.
LARRY EKIN and Dave Krause will
be final candidates for sophomore presi-dent
with Rhonda Pomeroy and Greg
Zavitz surviving in the race for sopho-more
secretary.
Remaining junior candidates are Tom
Christensen, Steve Bennett, and Marji
Sieveking for president, Pat Brown and
Diane Sturdy for secretary. Senior candi-dates
for president will be "Roomer"
Wiedrich and John Pepmeyer with Randy
"R.B." Beneze and Mary Hancock run-ning
for secretary. Bruce McClaren, Paul
Misch, and Gene Travis were the finalists
for off-campus representatives in senate.
The final election will take place Tues-day,
Oct. 17.
The school of drama requests that any-body
who possesses tickets to "Cabaret"
and does not intend to use them should
return the tickets to the McPherson box
office before curtain time of the date on
the ticket.
Anyone whose name is on one of the
waiting lists for "Cabaret" should stop
in at the box office and inform the office
whether or not he is still interested in
remaining on that list.
volume /y
Number 6
Poor turnouts, invalid votes mark primaries;
candidates to battle in final Tuesday ballot